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Posts Tagged ‘Internet Toys’

An Opera and Chrome Memory Usage Comparison Shot

By Giania • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Browsers

Hot: I realize that everyone’s probably already sick to death of hearing about Chrome, but I thought I’d chime in anyway. Here’s a memory usage shot of Chrome versus Opera. Click the image to see the big picture It’s not really a fair comparison, as the same things aren’t open, but I realized that with [...]



Good News! Multiple Language Support for RSS

By Giania • Aug 7th, 2008 • Category: Internet Tools

Hot: Do you have RSS feeds for sites that you like, but they aren’t in your language? Don’t you wish you could get those feeds translated and delivered in the language you’re most comfortable reading? Of course you do! Well, the internet is full of surprises and helpful little whatnots, and one of those items [...]



QED Group – Last.FM Topographical Map of Friend Compatibility

By Giania • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: Edit! Commenter Jess rightly pointed out the fact that I neglected (which was rude of me and I apologize) to actually link to the place where this neat data visualization can be found! It’s from qed-portal.com. I don’t know about you but I love the fact that my friends listen to notably different stuff. [...]



URLtea Bites It Again

By Giania • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: Looks like I had spoken too soon about URLtea being back in it to win it. An astute commenter on my previous “URLTea Dead” post just tipped me off to the site being dead, again. Below is the text I got when visting the main site. Site Temporarily Unavailable We apologize for the inconvenience. [...]



Occult Toy: Tarot Spread Generator

By Giania • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: I was poking around for more information on Liber AL Vel Legis earlier and found SourceryForge.org (I c wut they did thar). A little further sniffing about turned up this really neat Tarot spread generator. Though still under construction, it offers four types of readings: single card, 3 card relating to influence, 3 card [...]



URLTea dead?

By Giania • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: URLTea used to be my favorite URL shortening service. Emphasis on used to be. For (and I’m guessing here) I’d say the better part of a month, every time I have attempted to make a shortened URL or visit the site, it’s been coming up error, 404, you’re looking for what again? Does anyone [...]



Well, Hell, They’re Just WORDS

By Giania • Apr 5th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: Created by OnePlusYou I’d be interested to see how this test really works. I should check my log files for some kind of crawler. The results came back surprisingly fast, given the amount of pages here (especially when you take into account the tags and categories). I’m inclined to say that this percentage is [...]



Stream of Tuesday: Dude, Wait, What?

By Giania • Dec 18th, 2007 • Category: Fnord, Internet Toys, Philosophy

Hot: gawkermedia – like crack I ate a hot pocket earlier it collapsed part of my soul cult leadership is tough with so many alternatives to be had. I’m contemplating talking about a serious subject that came to mind through a dubious link conspiracy theory is weird, the truth is usually weirder. Hey how many [...]



Stupid Diversion: Disneyland Sign Generator

By Giania • Dec 4th, 2007 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: Who needs photoshop when you can just use one of a bajillion image generators littered throughout the net? Case in point: AddLetters.com’s Disneyland Sign Generator. Was the People Mover in Disneyland or Disney World?



RKNet upgrade

By Giania • Sep 25th, 2007 • Category: Recursion

Hot: Tonight or tomorrow I will be upgrading to WordPress 2.3. What this means for you as a reader is: mo-betta tags and a faster blog. It may also mean more authors! With the addition of a feature called “pending review”, it means I can invite others to share this blog space and still maintain [...]